A critical book club from the Ancillary Review of Books. Host Jake Casella Brookins invites writers, scholars, and critics to discuss thorny works of science fiction, fantasy, and other speculative genres.
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A critical book club from the Ancillary Review of Books. Host Jake Casella Brookins invites writers, scholars, and critics to discuss thorny works of science fiction, fantasy, and other speculative genres.
A Meal of Thorns 25 – THE HUGO NOVELS & NOVELLAS with Roseanna Pendlebury
A Meal of Thorns
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5 months ago
A Meal of Thorns 25 – THE HUGO NOVELS & NOVELLAS with Roseanna Pendlebury
Podcasts, reviews, interviews, essays, and more at the Ancillary Review of Books.Please consider supporting ARB’s Patreon!Credits:Guest: Roseanna PendleburyTitles: The 2025 Hugo Novel & Novella ListHost: Jake Casella BrookinsMusic by Giselle Gabrielle GarciaArtwork by Rob PattersonOpening poem by Bhartṛhari, translated by John BroughTranscribers: Kate Dollarhyde and John WM ThompsonReferences:Hugo Novella Finalists:The Brides of High Hill by Nghi VoThe Butcher of the Forest by Premee MohamedNavigational Entanglements by Aliette de BodardThe Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain by Sofia SamatarThe Tusks of Extinction by Ray NaylerWhat Feasts at Night by T. KingfisherHugo Novel Finalists:Alien Clay by Adrian TchaikovskyThe Ministry of Time by Kaliane BradleyService Model by Adrian TchaikovskySomeone You Can Build a Nest In by John WiswellA Sorceress Comes to Call by T. KingfisherThe Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson BennettThe Clarke Award listPaul Kincaid’s CoulorfieldsRoseanna’s “A Path Through the Landscape” for A Reader of Else, plus Paul Kincaid’s “The Books That Made Me” for Through the dark labyrinthNnedi Okorafor’s BintiCasella’s idea of a Hugo for Best Translated WorkRenay's Hugo Spreadsheet of DoomAlex Jeffers’s A Mourning CoatLorraine Wilson’s Last to DrownThe Ursula K. Le Guin PrizeThe Ignyte AwardsPremee Mohamed’s The Siege of Burning GrassVajra Chandraskera’s RakesfallJared Pechaček’s The West PassageSeth Dickinson’s Exordia and The Traitor Baru CormorantEmet North’s In UniversesEden Robin’s Remember You Will DieScott Guild's PlasticAliya Whiteley's Three Eight OneT. Kingfisher’s Saint of Steel booksMarie Brennan's A Natural History of DragonsRobert Jackson Bennett’s Divine Cities and Founders trilogiesAdrian Tchaikovsky’s House of Open WoundsGreg EganCharlie Stross's Neptune’s BroodZachary Gillan’s “Reading Weird Fiction in an Age of Fascism”Foz Meadow’s A Strange and Stubborn EnduranceRoseanna's review of Someone To Build A Nest InBrad Wright’s TravelersHelen MacDonald and Sin Blaché’s ProphetRoseanna’s Small Press Dispatch columnNerds of a Feather
A Meal of Thorns
A critical book club from the Ancillary Review of Books. Host Jake Casella Brookins invites writers, scholars, and critics to discuss thorny works of science fiction, fantasy, and other speculative genres.